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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the Industrial Revolution and how it changed work. They identify inventors and their inventions and examine their effect on society as a whole. They describe the impact on women during the time period. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students view a PowerPoint presentation on influential inventions of the 19th century. They research these inventions and decide which they believe to be the most important. They write a persuasive essay and present their opinion to the class. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students explore inventions that have been creaed since the 19th Century. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students research on the Internet for information. They produce a one page flier for their inventor and gather information from two different sites on the Internet to locate information on their particular inventor. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students study the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the inventions of Thomas Alva Edison. They design an infomercial to sell a product or a service for an invention. They create an invention that improves the world and write an article or news release. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify two American industrialists within the United States during the second half of the 19th century. They use specific examples, compare and contrast how these two industrialists were successful in their market. Students include information detailing what product, technology, funding, and labor supply each industrialist is identified with. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students analyze the role and impact of technological innovation in the late 19th and early 20th century. They evaluate manuscripts, sound recordings, and motion pictures to construct historical meaning. Students observe the connections between technological innovations and the growth of big business and monopoly. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students study the history of the computer and the role of women in the 19th century. They explore the work of Charles Babbage, Lord Byron and Lady Lovelace. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify particular 19th Century invention/inventor in the 19th century that is of interest to them, conduct research on that person and his/her invention, and prepare report of findings in form of paper, Powerpoint presentation, or other technology. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the occupation of inventors that were women. They conduct research using a variety of resources. They use the information to write a biography of the inventor and then students could also create a poster. Full Review »
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